CAPTURE WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND (DROPBOX + MACDOWN > EVERNOTE)- TUTORIAL FOR MacOS

THE STORY OF SCREENSHOT:

Reasons why I love using Evernote: For years, I was an Evernote power user. It could store everything I possibly needed, and make it available everywhere from my laptop to my phone and my tablet. One of the best feature I like is screenshot clipping on Mac (this feature requires a few steps more on Windows) by using this powerful hotkey Cmd + Ctrl + C. This is how the clipping feature looks like:

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How cool is that! In addition, as you can see from the above screenshot, you can add text to that small 'drop-down' workplace when you click on the evernote icon on the menu bar.

Reasons why I STOP using Evernote: It happens when I started using Macdown(one of the best Markdown editor). It has so many useful features such as:

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However, sometimes I miss the cool clipping feature from Evernote. It's because it is too much work to add a photo into markdown. Normally, you have to take a screenshot > Copy it to Dropbox public folder > Copy Public Link > Write markdown code to show the image (Macdown can render local images, but I prefer storing them in my dropbox). It takes 4 steps in markdown whereas I only need 1 step with Evernote. So I decided to integrate this Evernote feature into markdown.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Thanks to Andy Taylor for the instructions of Better OSX Screenshots with Shell Scripts. I have borrowed some from him then added some of mine. Here are the tutorials of how I do:

You can get your dropbox User ID by: Got to Public Folder > Right Click on any file > Copy Public Link > Paste it to your web browser URL

You should get any link like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/278685/Screensh...

Your ID is after /u/. In my case, the ID is 278685

dropboxuser=278685 # Replace with your ID
directoryname=shots
filename=shot_`date '+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S'`.png
path=~/Dropbox/Public/$directoryname/
mkdir -p $path
screencapture -o -i $path$filename
open --reveal $path$filename
publicurl=![image]\(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/$dropboxuser/$directoryname/$filename\)
printf $publicurl | pbcopy
pbpaste >> ~/Dropbox/Public/shots_text_file/text.mdown
printf '\n\n' >> ~/Dropbox/Public/shots_text_file/text.mdown

HOW TO USE IT:

>Pic 1:

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>Pic 2:

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